Pre-AP World History Words
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| 126137637 | Shang Dynasty | Second Chinese dynasty (about 1750-1122 B.C.) which was mostly a farming society ruled by an aristocracy mostly concerned with war. They're best remembered for their art of bronze casting. | 0 | |
| 126137638 | Oracle Bones | animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future in Ancient China | 1 | |
| 126137639 | Character Set | an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing in Chinese | 2 | |
| 126137640 | Ancestor Worship | Ancient Chinese people did ancestor worship | 3 | |
| 126137641 | Bronze in China | Bronze was common in China during Shang Dynasty | 4 | |
| 126137642 | Zhou Dynasty | Displaced Shang Dynasty; alliances with regional princes and families (feudal system); overtook Huang He River Valley (Middle Kingdom); invoked the "Mandate of Heaven"; Mandarin Chinese language; Confucious (philosopher) | 5 | |
| 126137643 | Mandate of Heaven | a political theory of ancient China (Zhou) in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source | 6 | |
| 126137644 | Dynastic Cycle | rise and fall of Chinese dynasties according to the Mandate of Heaven | 7 | |
| 126137645 | Iron Technology | The period of history, succeeding the Bronze Age, when people first learned to extract iron from ore and use it to forge tools, weapons and other objects. The first organized production of objects developed in southwestern Asia shortly after 2000 B.C. Chap 1 pg 6 | 8 | |
| 126137646 | Feudalism | system in which poor people are legally bound to work for wealthy landowners during Zhou Dynasty | 9 | |
| 126137647 | Coined Money in China | Coined money was common in the Zhou Dynasty | 10 | |
| 126137648 | Qin Dynasty | The dynasty that replaced the Zhou dynasty and employed Legalist ideas in order to control warring states and unify the country. | 11 | |
| 126137649 | Qin Shi Huangdi | First Emperor; only emperor of Qin Dynasty; legalist; abolished feudalism and established a bureaucracy; anti-religion; building of Great Wall and other public works | 12 | |
| 126137650 | Autocracy | government ruled by one individual | 13 | |
| 126137651 | Harsh Rule | Harsh rule was common in the Qin Dynasty | 14 | |
| 126137652 | Great Wall of China | a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC built by Qin Shi Huangdi | 15 | |
| 126137653 | Han Dynasty | A great and long-lasting rule, it discarded the harsh policies of the Qin dynasty and adopted Confucian principles. Han rulers chose officials on merit rather than birth. It was a time of prosperity | 16 | |
| 126137654 | Liu Bang | helped overthrow Qin dynasty, 1st emperor of the Han dynasty, was born a peasant and worked way up to emperor | 17 | |
| 126137655 | Wudi | Chinese emperor who brought the Han dynasty to its greatest strength | 18 | |
| 126137656 | Centralized Government | a government that controls all aspects of society from a central location through a central system | 19 | |
| 126137657 | Bureaucracy | Non-elective government officials | 20 | |
| 126137658 | Watermills | building located on rivers in which grain were crushed into flour with use of flowing water | 21 | |
| 126137659 | Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles) | 22 | |
| 126137660 | Paper | Something written on. Invented in China during Han Dynasty | 23 | |
| 126137661 | Confucianism | the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity | 24 | |
| 126137662 | Kong Fuzi | Confucius' true name | 25 | |
| 126137663 | Filial Piety | Respect | 26 | |
| 126137664 | Analects | Compiled by Confucius's disciples in 400sBC; basic ideas like ren(benevolence) and (li) proper conduct; one of "Four Books" used to train ancient Chinese civil servants | 27 | |
| 126137665 | Daoism | philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | 28 | |
| 126137666 | Laozi | founder of Daoism | 29 | |
| 126137667 | Daodejing | the classic scripture of Daoism | 30 | |
| 126137668 | Legalism | Chinese philosophy developed by Hanfeizi; taught that humans are naturally evil and therefore need to be ruled by harsh laws | 31 | |
| 126137669 | Han Fei | Founder if Legalism | 32 | |
| 126137670 | Hanfeizi | Scripture of Legalism | 33 |
